But when you're in love, you're in love – and Mili-fans just can't hold back their feelings:

Ed Miliband even talked about the fan club when he appeared on the Jeremy Vine show:

“So I found out about it last night and I told my wife about it and she thought it must be a case of mistaken identity," he said. "I then tried to convince her that it wasn’t a case of mistaken identity and she went from sort of amused to bemused.

“To be fair to the young woman who set the whole thing up, as I understand it, she’s seriously talking about the voice of young people in politics and I think there’s a serious point here, which is hearing the voices of young people in our politics I think young people in our country feel this generation, our generation has done them in.”

Confronted with a tweet from someone who says they could die happy if they met Ed Miliband and describes the Labour leader as “cool”, he responds: “OK I’m definitely blushing now. I certainly wouldn’t claim to be cool, by the way, I don’t think I’ve ever been called that. It’s very nice of those people who have joined this thing to be being nice about me, but I think they’re making a serious point about young people in our politics as well."

After a media frenzy, things are now a little out of hand. Fans are fighting back:

#Milifandom is not a joke. It's young people angry at the distorted presentation of Ed, trying to correct that + make themselves heard.